19 quotes
English historian and politician (1737–1794)
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
"Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself."
on Wisdom
"Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies"
on Fear
"Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius."
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
on Leadership
"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
"Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant."
on Faith
"War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice."
on War
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind."
on History
"I was never less alone than when by myself."
on Life
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."
on Philosophy
"My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India."
on Love
"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
"Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless."
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
on Empathy
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
on Courage
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
"It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy"
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
on Work
